01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC008930
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- UK and overseas
- Volunteers
- 1-50 volunteers
- Staff
- 0
- Postcode
- G62 8DG
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
The Balmore trust was set up to relieve poverty, with a particular focus on partnerships with smallholder farmers and their communities in Africa. It works to promote trade justice, working through, and supporting, its fair trade subsidiary, JTS. It works with and supports its producer partners to deliver capacity building projects aimed at supporting them to develop sustainable livelihoods.
Charitable purposes
- the prevention or relief of poverty
- the advancement of education
- the advancement of health
- the advancement of citizenship or community development
- the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
- the advancement of environmental protection or improvement
- the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
- any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes
Beneficiaries
- Children or young people
- Other defined groups
- Other charities or voluntary bodies
Activities
- It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
- It carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
To relieve poverty, distress and suffering in any part of the world (including starvation, sickness or any physical disability or affliction) when arising from any public calamity (including famine, earthquake, war or civil disturbance) or the immediate or continuing result of want of natural or artificial resources or the means to develop them or howsoever otherwise arising.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 January 2025 | £69,055 | £191,287 | 0 | 15 October 2025 |
| 31 January 2024 | £156,890 | £117,529 | 0 | 18 October 2024 |
| 31 January 2023 | £46,460 | £56,510 | 0 | 3 July 2023 |
| 31 January 2022 | £46,460 | £63,969 | 0 | 5 October 2022 |
| 31 January 2021 | £180,807 | £124,297 | 0 | 12 October 2021 |
Figures are those reported by the charity and supplied in the OSCR bulk download. Blank facts remain distinct from zero.
04 Contact record
Principal office or trustees address
- Address supplied to OSCR
- 7 Kersland Drive, Milngavie, Glasgow
- Website supplied to OSCR
- Not supplied
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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